Unlock Your Organization’s Ultimate Performance

We empower leaders and teams to elevate capabilities and drive cultural transformation, achieving strategic goals through Lean, Agile, Strategy Execution, M&A Integration, and Organizational Excellence.

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Building an Enduring Great Organization Requires Relentless Focus, Change, and Support

Culture shapes every aspect of business

Achieving transformational goals demands not only new skills but also the ability to inspire change in minds and hearts across the organization. Yet many companies lack the internal capability or capacity to adapt at the speed required in today’s dynamic environment.

That’s where Ultimate Performance (UP) comes in. We specialize in helping businesses reengineer leadership capabilities, culture, team dynamics, organizational systems, and processes for a stronger future. This is particularly crucial for the oil and gas sector, which faces unprecedented net-zero emission targets, as well as for strategic buyers and private equity firms seeking accelerated growth through mergers and acquisitions.

 

Peter Drucker famously said—”Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”

At UP, we believe culture is the DNA of every organization—the glue that makes your company unique. When culture aligns with purpose, strategy, and business goals, it accelerates growth, boosts employee engagement, reduces risk, and strengthens your brand.

Conversely, when culture is misaligned, employees feel disconnected and productivity drops, leading to missed revenue targets and increased challenges. Without a strong cultural foundation, successful transformation becomes nearly impossible.

Driving culture change and enterprise resilience

Our team leverages a proven formula based on the practices of top-performing companies to foster organizational excellence and build lasting capabilities. We design transformative experiences that shift mindsets, drive cultural change, and create robust work systems that support sustainable, large-scale transformation.

We take a proactive and responsive approach, partnering with leaders to enhance organizational health and develop systems that are tailored to meet business needs—ensuring lasting success.

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Demand for Change is Accelerating

Low-Carbon Expectations: Pressure for sustainable practices drives faster innovation and technology integration

Tighter Margins & Higher Costs: Enhanced performance and efficiency are essential for profitability

Disruptive Changes: New processes and technologies challenge stability, requiring strong leadership

Market Volatility & Supply Chain Issues: Greater agility and resilience are critical to navigate complexities

Empowering leadership for successful transformation

Will your organization emerge stronger—or get left behind?

Today’s challenges, from digital disruption and market shifts to rising customer expectations and supply chain volatility, have one common denominator: people.

The organizations that thrive are those that equip their people with the right tools, skills, and mindset to excel. Investing in your team’s capabilities is the key to driving transformation and sustaining success.

People are the heart of any transformation. Make them your competitive advantage.

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Creating lasting impact in today’s complex environment

“The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture”—Edgar Schein

To achieve lasting excellence, leaders need support in elevating their people and enhancing change leadership capabilities. By developing a stronger change leadership approach and fostering a culture aligned with improved systems and tools, organizations unlock new capabilities, including:

  • Faster execution of strategies and decisions
  • Scaling new businesses while navigating ambiguity, complexity, and rapid change
  • Accelerated learning from continuous improvement efforts
  • Adopting new ways of working and letting go of outdated practices

At UP, we partner closely with leaders and teams to drive the critical shifts needed for successful transformation. We identify and eliminate the most significant barriers to profitable growth, resulting in strengthened financial performance and impactful, lasting change.

Our Success Stories

Order-to-Cash

Freed up cash through cycle-time reduction.

Global Functions Offshoring and Centralizing Organizations (CoEs)

Served as the “enabler” in the transition to a new effective and lower-cost HR, IT, and Finance services support model.

Drilling & Completion

Achieved industry-leading performance.

Strategy Deployment

Cascaded strategy vertically and horizontally for high alignment on the What and How.

Vendor Management & Requisition to Pay

Drove out millions of dollars in payment errors.

Asset-Integrated Planning

Simplification of work and global standards freed up 80% of technical talent to work on higher value deliverables.

Commercial Operations Value

Greater than $100M in value capture from land and midstream operations through improved contract management.

Competitive Turnaround

Reduced cost by 50%, moving from worst-in-class to best-in-class performance.

Development Planning

Doubled production output within six months.

Discovery to First Oil

Doubled throughput of successful discoveries and reduced cycle time to first oil by 50%.

Global Functions Offshoring and Centralizing Organizations (CoEs)

Served as the “enabler” in the transition to a new effective and lower-cost HR, IT, and Finance services support model.

Maintenance

Simplification and process transformation enabled zero backlog with lower delivery cost.

Performance Management

Implemented check-and-adjust process for achieving breakthrough objectives.

Production Deferment

Reduced asset downtime by 30%.

Project Delivery

Sustainably reduced project delivery time by 30%.

Refinery Turnaround

Reduced wasted time by 30% and increased time on tools and reliability.

Retail Fulfilment Optimization

Doubled throughput capacity, reduced handling costs by 65%, and increased order accuracy to 99%+.

Seismic

Reduced seismic interpretation time by 30%.

Site Facilities

Reduced lead time and cost by 30%.

Supply Chain/ Logistics

Achieved a $10 million cash-flow impact.

Technology Delivery

Drove down technology deployment cycle time by 50%, allowing for earlier ROI and longer benefit.

Trading Process & Digital Transformation

Unlocked cash potential through transaction speed and quality.